Centerpiece: Spring 2014

The following Harvard faculty accepted invitations to become WCFIA Faculty Associates in the 2014–2015 academic year: Lawrence Bobo, W.E.B. Du Bois Professor of the Social Sciences and Professor of African and African American Studies, Department of...

Polyglot I can hear the voice speaking Italian, which I know a little, so I recognize right away that the Italian I hear down the hallway is not spoken by a native speaker. It’s one-sided, clearly a telephone conversation. I recognize it as the voice of...

Sections Undergraduate Associates 2014–2015 2014 Thomas Temple Hoopes Prize Winners First-Year Graduate Student Associates 2014–2015 Undergraduate Associates 2014–2015 The following students have been appointed Undergraduate Student Associates for the...

Former Fellow Appointed to Alphinat Board of Directors Former Fellow (1986–1987) Marcel Côté has been appointed to the Alphinat board of directors. Côté is a strategic advisor at KPMG Canada. For thirty-five years, he has led the Secor Group, one of...

His Hiding Place Is Darkness: A Hindu-Catholic Theopoetics of Divine Absence By Francis X. Clooney, S.J. Francis Clooney’s latest work of comparative theology seeks a way beyond today’s religious and interreligious uncertainty by pairing a fresh reading...

By Brett L. Carter The Two Africas The Third Wave of democracy reached Africa in January 1989 when throngs of Benin students protested the government’s failure to disburse scholarships. Five years later, with the Cold War over and food prices soaring...

Interview by Kristin Caulfield and Megan Margulies Michèle Lamont, Director-Designate, reflects on teaching and her collaborative research on inequality. Come fall 2015, Michèle Lamont will begin a five-year term as Center Director. As Lamont looks ahead...

The spring 2014 issue of Centerpiece introduces newly appointed Center Director Michèle Lamont in the feature interview “ In Conversation with… .” The issue's second feature, “ Political Survival and the Modern African Prince ” by Brett L. Carter, focuses...